Having a band of diagonal lenticular beading above a band of gadrooning to base, cast beading to S-shaped handle with heel terminal, possibly by William Hux (w.1700-1729), (OP 2498, PS 4935), height 12.5cm

Footnotes

Provenance: Richard Mundey, purchased 1984.

A two handled loving cup by William Hux, with similar decoration as found here, sold Christie's, The Little Collection, May 2007, lot 92.

A similar mug in the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, illustrated, A. North, Pewter at the Victoria and Albert Museum , p.88, fig.88 (Yeates Bequest). Again, a direct comparison can be made regarding the diagonal gadroon and lenticular decoration.

A similar mug, with the addition of punch decoration, similar to the V&A example, sold in these rooms, The Stanley Shemmell Collection, 26 October, 2006, lot 81.

A survey of gadrooned mugs, conducted by Michael Boorer in 1984, lists this lot as the only other known curved example apart from the aforementioned V&A and Shemmell examples. A further example illustrated, the Journal of the Pewter Society, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 1997, pp. 42-43, bearing touchmark of Jonathan Cotton I (w.1704-1750).

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